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Maintaining and Improving Children’s Oral Health

American Academy of Pediatrics Updates Recommendations According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, more than 45% of children experience dental caries--or tooth decay--by age 19. And health disparities including poverty, insurance and language barriers prevent many families from accessing oral health care.  Read the complete AAP news release: American Academy of Pediatrics Updates Recommendations on…
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Health care issues for children and adolescents in foster care and kinship care.

AAP Pediatrics Article Health care issues for children and adolescents in foster care and kinship care. The American Academy of Pediatrics published an article on health care issues for children and adolescents in foster care and kinship care. The article discusses serious medical, mental health, developmental, oral health, and psychosocial problems rooted in their history of childhood…
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Looking for more news to help care for kids? Check out these EPSDT updates... MMWR: AADM Network Surveillance Summaries / March 24, 2023 The Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (ADDM) estimates of the overall prevalence of ASD among children aged 8 years for 2020 was 27.6 per 1,000 (one in 36) children aged 8 years…
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